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FBaggins

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3. Except they don't - unless we start off assuming that there is a problem

Reply to ck4829 (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 29, 2022, 09:53 AM

Sep 2022

As I implied above - men make up slightly less than half of the population... but they make up 99% of people exonerated from rape convictions. Does that mean that "something is very off" or just that men make up 99% of rapists?

Not knowing what percentage of convictions (or indictments) occur by race, I can't tell whether a given percentage of exonerations is high or low.

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Black people are being falsely convicted of serious crimes at alarming rates, report finds [View all] ck4829 Sep 2022 OP

Seems like the wrong data point to draw that conclusion FBaggins Sep 2022 #1

More research should be done, but exoneration statistics shows something is very off ck4829 Sep 2022 #2

Except they don't - unless we start off assuming that there is a problem FBaggins Sep 2022 #3